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Let's try to discuss a bit how
things relate to physics.
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There are two main things I
want to discuss.
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One of them is what curl says
about force fields and,
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in particular,a nice
consequence of that concerning
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gravitational attraction.
More about curl.
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If we have a velocity field,
then we have seen that the curl
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measures the rotation affects.
More precisely curl v measures
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twice the angular velocity,
or maybe I should say the
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angular velocity vector because
it also includes the axis of
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rotation.
I should say maybe for the
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rotation part of a motion.
For example,
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just to remind you,
I mean we have seen this guy a
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couple of times,
but if I give you a uniform
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rotation motion about the z,
axes.
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That is a vector field in which
the trajectories are going to be
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circles centered in the z-axis
and our vector field is just
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going to be tangent to each of
these circles.
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And, if you look at it from
above, then you will have this
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rotation vector field that we
have seen many times.
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Typically, the velocity vector
for this would be minus yi plus
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yj times maybe a number that
represents how fast we are
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spinning,
the angular velocity in
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gradients per second.
And then.
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if you compute the curl of
this, you will end up with two
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omega times k.
Now, the other kinds of vector
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fields we have seen physically
are force fields.
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The question is what does the
curl of a force field mean?
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What can we say about that?
The interpretation is a little
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bit less obvious,
but let's try to get some idea
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of what it might be.
I want to remind you that if we
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have a solid in a force field,
we can measure the torque
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exerted by the force on the
solid.
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Maybe first I should remind you
about what torque is in space.
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Let's say that I have a piece
of solid with a mass,
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delta m for example,
and I have a force that is
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being exerted to it.
Let's say that maybe my force
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might be F times delta m.
If you think,
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for example,
a gravitational field.
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The gravitational force is
actually the gravitational field
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times the mass.
I mean you can forget delta m
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if you don't like it.
And let's say that the position
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vector, which should be aiming
for the origin,
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R is here.
And now let's say that maybe
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this guy is at the end of some
arm or some metal thing and I
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want to hold it in place.
The force is going to exert a
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torque relative to the origin
that will try to measure how
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much I am trying to swing this
guy around the origin.
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And, consequently,
how much effort I have to exert
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if I want to actually maintain
its place by just holding it at
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the end of the stick here.
So the torque is now a vector,
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which is just the cross-product
of a position vector with a
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force.
What the torque measures again
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is the rotation effects of the
force.
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And if you remember the
principle that the derivative of
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velocity,
which is acceleration,
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is force divided by mass then
the derivative of angular
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velocity should be angular
acceleration which is related to
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the torque per unit mass.
To just remind you,
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if I look at translation
motions,
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say I am just looking at the
point mass so there are no
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rotation effects then force
divided by mass is acceleration,
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which is the derivative of
velocity.
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And so what I am claiming is
that for rotation effects we
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have a similar law,
which maybe you have seen in
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8.01.
Well, it is one of the
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important things of solid
mechanics, which is the torque
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of a force divided by the moment
of inertia.
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I am cheating a little bit here.
If you can see how I am
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cheating then I am sure you know
how to state it correctly.
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And if you don't see how I am
cheating then let's just ignore
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the details.
[LAUGHTER]
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Is angular acceleration.
And angular acceleration is the
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derivative of angular velocity.
If I think of curl as an
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operation,
which from a velocity field
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gives the angular velocity of
its rotation effects,
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then you see that the curl of
an acceleration field gives the
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angular acceleration in the
rotation part of the
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acceleration effects.
And, therefore,
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the curl of a force field
measures the torque per unit
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moment of inertia.
It measures how much torque its
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force field exerts on a small
test solid placed in it.
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If you have a small solid
somewhere, the curl will just
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measure how much your solid
starts spinning if you leave it
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in this force field.
In particular,
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a force field with no curl is a
force field that does not
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generate any rotation motion.
That means if you put an object
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in there that is completely
immobile and you leave it in
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that force field,
well, of course it might
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accelerate in some direction but
it won't start spinning.
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While, if you put it in there
spinning already in some
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direction, it should continue to
spin in the same way.
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Of course, maybe there will be
friction and things like that
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which will slow it down but this
force field is not responsible
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for it.
The cool consequence of this is
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if a force field F derives from
a potential -- That is what we
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have seen about conservative
forces.
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Our main concern so far has
been to say if we have a
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conservative force field it
means that the work of a force
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is the change in the energy.
And, in particular,
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we cannot get energy for free
out of it.
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And the change in the potential
energy is going to be the change
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in kinetic energy.
You have conservation of energy
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principles.
There is another thing that we
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know now because if a force
derives from a potential then
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that means its curl is zero.
That is the criterion we have
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seen for a vector field to
derive from a potential.
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And if the curl is zero then it
means that this force does not
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generate any rotation effects.
For example,
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if you try to understand where
the earth comes from,
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well, the earth is spinning on
itself as it goes around the
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sun.
And you might wonder where that
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comes from.
Is that causes by gravitational
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attraction?
And the answer is no.
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Gravitational attraction in
itself cannot cause the earth to
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start spinning faster or slower,
at least if you assume the
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earth to be a solid,
which actually is false.
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I mean basically the reason why
the earth is spinning is because
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it was formed spinning.
It didn't start spinning
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because of gravitational
effects.
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And that is a rather deep
purely mathematical consequence
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of understanding gravitation in
this way.
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It is quite spectacular that
just by abstract thinking we got
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there.
What is the truth?
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Well, the truth is the earth,
the moon and everything is
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slightly deformable.
And so there is deformation,
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friction effects,
tidal effects and so on.
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And these actually cause
rotations to get slightly
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synchronized with each other.
For example,
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if you want to explain why the
moon is always showing the same
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face to the earth,
why the rotation of a moon on
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itself is synchronized with its
revolution around the earth,
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which is actually explained by
friction effects over time and
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the gravitational attraction of
the earth and the moon.
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There is something there,
but if you took perfectly
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rigid, solid bodies then
gravitation would never cause
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any rotation effects.
Of course that tells us that we
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do not know how to answer the
question of why is the earth
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spinning.
That will be left for another
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physics class.
I don't have a good answer to
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that.
That was kind of 8.01-ish.
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Let me now move forward to 8.02
stuff.
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I want to tell you things about
electric and magnetic fields.
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And, in fact,
something that is known as
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Maxwell's equations.
Just a quick poll.
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How many of you have been
taking 8.02 or something like
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that?
OK. That is not very many.
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For most of you this is a
preview.
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If you have been taking 8.02,
have you seen Maxwell's
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equations, at least part of
them?
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Yeah.
OK.
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Then I am sure,
in that case,
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you know better than me what I
am going to talk about because I
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am not a physicist.
But just in case.
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Maxwell's equations govern how
electric and magnetic fields
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behave, how they are caused by
electric charges and their
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motions.
And, in particular,
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they explain a lot of things
such as how electric devices
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work, but also how
electromagnetic waves propagate.
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In particular,
that explains light and all
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sorts of waves.
It is thanks to them,
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you know, your cell phone,
laptops and things like that
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work.
Anyway.
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Hopefully most of you know that
the electric field is a vector
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field that basically tells you
what kind of force will be
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exerted on a charged particle
that you put in it.
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If you have a particle carrying
an electric charge then this
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vector field will tell you,
basically there will be an
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electric force which is the
charge times E that will be
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exerted on that particle.
And that is what is
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responsible, for example,
for the flow of electrons when
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you have a voltage difference.
Because classically this guy is
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a gradient of a potential.
And that potential is just
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electric voltage.
The magnetic field is a little
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bit harder to think about if you
have never seen it in physics,
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but it is what is causing,
for example,
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magnets to work.
Well, basically it is a force
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that is also expressed in terms
of a vector field usually called
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B.
Some people call it H but I am
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going to use B.
And that force tends to cause
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it, if you have a moving charged
particle, to deflect its
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trajectory and start rotating in
a magnetic field.
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What it does is not quite as
easy as what an electric field
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does.
Just to give you formulas,
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the force caused by the
electric field is the charge
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times the electric field.
And the force caused by the
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magnetic field,
I am never sure about the sign.
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Is that the correct sign?
Good.
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Now, the question is we need to
understand how these fields
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themselves are caused by the
charged particles that are
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placed in them.
There are various laws in there
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that explain what is going on.
Let me focus today on the
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electric field.
Maxwell's equations actually
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tell you about div and curl of
these fields.
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Let's look at div and curl of
the electric field.
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The first equation is called
the Gauss-Coulomb law.
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And it says that the divergence
of the electric field is equal
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to,
so this is a just a physical
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constant,
and what it is equal to depends
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on what units you are using.
And this guy rho,
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well, it is not the same rho as
in spherical coordinates because
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physicists somehow pretended
they used that letter first.
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It is the electric charge
density.
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It is the amount of electric
charge per unit volume.
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What this tells you is that
divergence of E is caused by the
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presence of electric charge.
In particular,
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if you have an empty region of
space or a region where nothing
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has electrical charge then E has
divergence equal to zero.
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Now, that looks like a very
abstract strange equation.
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I mean it is a partial
differential equation satisfied
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by the electric field E.
And that is not very intuitive
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in any way.
What is actually more intuitive
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is what we get if we apply the
divergence theorem to this
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equation.
If I think now about any closed
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surface,
and I want to think about the
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flux of the electric field out
of that surface,
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we haven't really thought about
what the flux of a force field
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does.
And I don't want to get into
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that because there is no very
easy answer in general,
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but I am going to explain soon
how this can be useful
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sometimes.
Let's say that we want to find
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the flux of the electric field
out of a closed surface.
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Then, by the divergence
theorem,
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that is equal to the triple
integral of a region inside of
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div E dV,
which is by the equation one
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over epsilon zero,
that is this constant,
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times the triple integral of
rho dV.
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But now, if I integrate the
charge density over the entire
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region,
then what I will get is
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actually the total amount of
electric charge inside the
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region.
That is the electric charge in
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D.
This one tells us,
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in a more concrete way,
how electric charges placed in
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here influence the electric
field around them.
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In particular,
one application of that is if
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you want to study capacitors.
Capacitors are these things
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that store energy by basically
you have two plates,
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one that contains positive
charge and a negative charge.
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Then you have a voltage between
these plates.
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And, basically,
that can provide electrical
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energy to power maybe an
electric circuit.
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That is not really a battery
because it doesn't store energy
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in large enough amounts.
But, for example,
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that is why when you switch
your favorite gadget off it
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doesn't actually go off
immediately but somehow you see
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things dimming progressively.
There is a capacitor in there.
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If you want to understand how
the voltage and the charge
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relate to each other,
the voltage is obtained by
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integrating the electric field
from one plate to the other
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plate.
And the charges in the plates
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are what causes the electric
field between the plates.
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That is how you can get the
relation between voltage and
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charge in these guys.
That is an example of
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application of that.
Now, of course,
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if you haven't seen any of this
then maybe it is a little bit
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esoteric, but that will tell you
part of what you will see in
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8.02.
Questions?
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I see some confused faces.
Well, don't worry.
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It will make sense some day.
[LAUGHTER]
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The next one I want to tell you
about is Faraday's law.
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In case you are confused,
Maxwell's equations,
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there are four equations in the
set of Maxwell's equations and
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most of them don't carry
Maxwell's name.
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That is a quirky feature.
That one tells you about the
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curl of the electric field.
Now, depending on your
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knowledge,
you might start telling me that
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the curl of the electric field
has to be zero because it is the
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gradient of the electric
potential.
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I told you this stuff about
voltage.
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Well, that doesn't account for
the fact that sometimes you can
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create voltage out of nowhere
using magnetic fields.
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And, in fact,
you have a failure of
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conservativity of the electric
force if you have a magnetic
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field.
What this one says is the curl
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of E is not zero but rather it
is the derivative of the
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magnetic field with respect to
time.
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More precisely it tells you
that what you might have learned
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about electric fields deriving
from electric potential becomes
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false if you have a variable
magnetic field.
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And just to tell you again that
is a strange partial
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differential equation relating
these two vector fields.
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To make sense of it one should
use Stokes' theorem.
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If we apply Stokes' theorem to
compute the work done by the
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electric field around a closed
curve,
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that means you have a wire in
there and you want to find the
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voltage along the wire.
Now there is a strange thing
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because classically you would
say, well, if I just have a wire
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with nothing in it there is no
voltage on it.
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Well, a small change in plans.
If you actually have a varying
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magnetic field that passes
through that wire then that will
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actually generate voltage in it.
That is how a transformer works.
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When you plug your laptop into
the wall circuit,
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you don't actually feed it
directly 110 volts,
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120 volts or whatever.
There is a transformer in there.
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What the transformer does it
takes some input voltage and
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passes that through basically a
loop of wire.
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Not much seems to be happening.
But now you have another loops
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of wire that is intertwined with
it.
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Somehow the magnetic field
generated by it,
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and it has to be a donating
current.
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The donating current varies
over time in the first wire.
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That generates a magnetic field
that varies over time,
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so that causes 2B by 2t and
that causes curl of the electric
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field.
And the curl of the electric
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field will generate voltage
between these two guys.
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And that is how a transformer
works.
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It uses Stokes' theorem.
More precisely,
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how do we find the voltage
between these two points?
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Well, let's close the loop and
let's try to figure out the
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voltage inside this loop.
To find a voltage along a
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closed curve places in a varying
magnetic field,
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we have to do the line integral
along a closed curve of the
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electric field.
And you should think of this as
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the voltage generated in this
circuit.
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That will be the flux for this
surface bounded by the curve of
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curl E dot dS.
That is what Stokes' theorem
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says.
And now if you combine that
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with Faraday's law you end up
with the flux trough S of minus
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dB over dt.
And, of course, you could take,
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if your loop doesn't move over
time,
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I mean there is a different
story if you start somehow
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taking your wire and somehow
moving it inside the field.
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But if you don't do that,
if it is the field that is
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moving then you just can take
the dB by dt outside.
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But let's not bother.
Again, what this equation tells
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you is that if the magnetic
field changes over time then it
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creates, just out of nowhere,
and electric field.
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And that electric field can be
used to power up things.
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I don't really claim that I
have given you enough details to
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understand how they work,
but basically these equations
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are the heart of understanding
how things like capacitors and
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transformers work.
And they also explain a lot of
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other things,
but I will leave that to your
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physics teachers.
Just for completeness,
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I will just give you the last
two equations in that.
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I am not even going to try to
explain them too much.
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One of them says that the
divergence of the magnetic field
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is zero,
which somehow is fortunate
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because otherwise you would run
into trouble trying to
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understand surface independence
when you apply Stokes' theorem
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in here.
And the last one tells you how
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the curl of the magnetic field
is caused by motion of charged
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particles.
In fact, let's say that the
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curl of B is given by this kind
of formula, well,
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J is what is called the vector
of current density.
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It measures the flow of
electrically charged particles.
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You get this guy when you start
taking charged particles,
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like electrons maybe,
and moving them around.
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And, of course,
that is actually part of how
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transformers work because I have
told you running the AC through
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the first loop generates a
magnetic field.
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Well, how does it do that?
It is thanks to this equation.
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If you have a current passing
in the loop that causes a
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magnetic field and,
in turn, for the other equation
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that causes an electric field,
which in turn causes a current.
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It is all somehow intertwined
in a very intricate way and is
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really remarkable how well that
works in practice.
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I think that is basically all I
wanted to say about 8.02.
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I don't want to put your
physics teachers out of a job.
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[LAUGHTER]
If you haven't seen any of this
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before,
I understand that this is
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probably not detailed enough to
be really understandable,
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but hopefully it will make you
a bit curious about that and
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prompt you to take that class
someday and maybe even remember
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how it relates to 18.02.
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